Griffin will have three new parks

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The first of six parks for children has been opened in Griffintown, in Montreal, Sunday, July 10, 2016. Approximately 400 families live in this neighborhood.

Zechariah Goudreault

Sunday 4 February 2018 20:13

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Three new parks will be built in Griffintown in the next few years in order to fill a dearth of green spaces in this neighborhood of the borough of South-West full of excitement.

“If we want to attract families, it takes us to the green spaces where people have picnics, meet the summer, where young people gather to play […] You’re talking about big parks very well located in Griffintown,” said Craig Sauvé, a city councillor from the South-West.

In recent years, the City of Montreal has acquired three plots of several thousand square meters along the street Ottawa in order that they be reserved for the development of parks, two of which will have a retention basin of water in order to avoid the overflow of the sewers when will occur from heavy rainfall.

“This is a unique opportunity to draw the three parks of a shot in the center of Montreal. We won’t see it often. I find it really exciting, ” welcomed the elected Project Montreal.

The former industrial district, where many buildings to condos have been built in recent years, has often been criticized due to the lack of parks, schools and other public services for families.

Investments

At the corner of Ann and Ottawa, a private parking will be converted into a huge green area of 8300 m2, situated near a train station of the future electrical Network in metropolitan france. The City will invest for approximately $ 38 million to build a retention basin of water, which is the first stage of the project.

“This is not cheap, that’s for sure,” admitted Mr. Sauvé, also noting the tens of millions of dollars necessary for the purchase of the land.

While a fleet size that is similar will be built at the corner of the streets St. Thomas, and Ottawa, the third of the green space, which will not possess a basin of water retention, could accommodate the cultural complex of three-storey, MR-63, which will be designed with the help of subway cars obsolete, if the support of the public is at the rendezvous.

A first meeting citizen seeks to enable residents of Griffintown to issue their recommendations on potential development in these parks has brought together some 250 people at the School of superior technology last Wednesday.